Thanks to Bob, Nathanial, Greg for the help and expert analysis. We received an email similar to this:
= = = Hi there lovely,I was searching the net few days ago and = = = It was clearly spam, but what is the crime? So a couple of us responded back via throwaway accounts. We each received emails with pictures of a pretty girl with text similar to this: = = = Hello my lonely boy,I am so happy to see that you have = = = The scam: get lonely gullible men to wire money so that beautiful Russian women can fly here to work hard by day and date them by night. And of course the money disappears and no girl. It might not hurt to update your awareness programs, or add this to your next awareness email blast. Other links the research team found include: http://home.wi.rr.com/saruman/articles/articles_fromrussia.html http://www.stopscammers.com/letter(s)_from1126_to_report1.asp http://www.womenrussia.com/blocklist.htm Perhaps the funniest thing, the pictures of the "pretty girl" apparently are Canadian, not Russian, but who can know. Thanks to everyone and we consider the case closed. Stephen Northcutt - President The SANS Technology Institute |
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